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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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More Nvidia problems than anything else?
In the past 3-4 months I've noticed that on the main site, there is a ratio of about 5:1 referring Nvidia graphics questions than anything else, and I'm wondering why? I do understand that NVidia bein …
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Friendly-Voting
Recently, I have seen an issue that has been prominent for a long time, and I don't think that the StackExchange/AskUbuntu staff have done anything about. Here's how it goes.
2 People who are frien …
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Questions suddenly active
I love scrolling through the questions and answering and helping with as many as I can, but sometimes I'll run into a really old question. By really old I mean anywhere from 2-3 years old. What my que …
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Taking a change from another user
When editing a question, afterwards (if approved) it will display who edited the question. Recently as I have been editing questions - being grammar/spelling police ;-) - I've noticed that (SOME OF) t …
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Ten tips to handle your question in the worst possible way
I love this, but there are a few more I'd include ;)
Use the grammar of a 4 year old child ("UBNTUU 1604 FAILS INSTALL HELP
!!!"), so that someone like me can swoop in and waste precious time of th …
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Should virtualbox count as Ubuntu?
Over my time on this site, I have seen around ten or twelve questions around this main circle. People are running Windows with Ubuntu on virtualbox, and are having issues. They then assume that virtua …
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What Is Considered "Extra Noise?"
The question/discussion I have/want to have is where the line is drawn between common courtesy, and "excess noise" in a question. …
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The Asker or the Answerer?
When people come to this site, they seek help, and I acknowledge that. Now however, it is time to question how much they need to know before they come asking for help. I was scrolling through earlier …
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Being able to see deleted answers
I've seen in the past questions on the meta dealing with case specific problems that have been very intriguing, yet to find out that the linked question had been deleted resulting in the "Page not fou …
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Why limit edits?
When I get bored at school literally all I have is coming here and editing questions (hehe), but usually there aren't 3K+ rep users on the review queue when I'm on, and so I'm limited to 5 edits to su …
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Are votes more dramatic on Meta?
Just a simple question and discussion, no complaining, just asking. From what you (as an AU user) have seen, do you feel that votes are more dramaticized on Meta? …
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What justifies an edit?
How big of a change should be needed before an edit is justifiable? For example a small grammatical error bugs the crap out of me, but I am too hesitant to fix it, whereas sometimes a question is eith …
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Please do not use links as entire answers!
I have recently noticed a trend going around, and to be perfectly honest it's pissing me off. What new users (and some experience users,) do nowadays is go to the main page, find a question that's bee …
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Collective "On Topic-ity"
It seems that recently on AskUbuntu, questions have been slipping through the Close-Wall (The wall that keeps a question from being seen by more than a few people). Until now this wall had redirected …
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